China zooms in on Latin America, Africa in critical minerals race — report
China is expected to continue building its influence over key minerals such as lithium and cobalt across the developing world, according to S&P Global.
NioCorp’s Elk Creek project yielded rare earth elements as a potential by-product of the mining of niobium, titanium, and scandium in a recent feasibility study.
Unlike in the era of Sputnik and Apollo, the world’s top superpowers can’t even agree on basic principles to govern the next generation of space activity.